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And David answered...As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of<br />
all adversity, When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have<br />
brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought<br />
that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:<br />
How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own<br />
house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand,<br />
and take you away from the earth?<br />
— II Samuel 4:9-11<br />
Then David commanded his young men to slay them, and their hands and<br />
feet were cut off and hung up over the pool of Hebron. The head of Saul’s<br />
son, Ishbosheth, was buried in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron (II Samuel<br />
4:12). Then, all the tribes of Israel came to Hebron and spoke to David:<br />
...Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh. Also in time past, when Saul was king<br />
over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD<br />
said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over<br />
Israel<br />
— II Samuel 5:1-2<br />
Then all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and David made a<br />
league with them before the Lord. David was anointed king over all Israel.<br />
He was thirty years old when he began to reign, a reign that lasted for forty<br />
years. He reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem<br />
he reigned over all Israel thirty-three years (II Samuel 5:3-5).<br />
VOCABULARY<br />
adversary —<br />
enemy<br />
competitor —<br />
league —<br />
reconciliation —<br />
sepulchre —<br />
a person who competes or contends with another<br />
an agreement made by nations or people<br />
the act of being brought together again<br />
a vault or chamber for burial, a tomb<br />
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